It's good to see Michigan dealing strongly with this. There are a large number of Muslims living in Michigan. The practice of slicing up the genitals of little girls will continue to go on. Toss the butchers in prison.
It is good to see, but it's got nothing to do with religion. This is an ancient (way ancient, way before the "major" religions) cultural practice. In Mecca in fact it's considered barbaric.
I didn't say it had anything to do with religion. The fact remains that there have been many cases of female genital mutilation in Michigan and it has involved Muslims.
In the same way it has involved Sagittarians or righthanded people.
Again -- it has no basis in religion, has no religious function, and long predates Islam, Christianism and Judaism. It's specific to
geography, not religion.
Just as, for example Western women wear earrings or paint their fingernails. Again --- nothing to do with religion but if you surveyed women with painted fingernails you'd find a lot of Christians. From that you could conclude ------ nothing.